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Accessible Gardens

Barrier free gardens provide an opportunity for all people in your neighborhood to participate in gardening by removing physical barriers that can prevent people with mobility or sensory challenges from taking part.

A community garden is a group of people that get together to plant and harvest a garden. Some gardens have a communal plot where everybody shares the land, whereas others allocate individual plots to gardeners to plant on their own.

Starting a community garden is not a simple task. But when passionate people come together with considerable organization, planning, cooperation, perseverance and resources, great success can be achieved.

A couple years ago, members of the Salvation Army Hope and Unity Community Garden (HUG) in Kitchener, Ontario, were interested in learning some tactics to control populations of cucumber beetle, potato beetle and flea beetle. I discovered that the best defense against so-called pests is healthy,...

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Growing your own food can be both fun and challenging in Ontario. Like many generations of people before you, you are at the mercy of our wonderfully crazy climate. Luckily, many people have sorted out what grows best when, and there is a wealth of information available online, at local nurseries, green houses and within your community.